Photos: Soyuz MS-02 spaceship lands in Kazakhstan

Carrying three space station crew members back home after 173 days in orbit, the Russian Soyuz MS-02 landing craft touched down in Kazakhstan on Monday after a parachute-assisted descent through clear skies.

These images from NASA and Roscosmos photographers show the capsule coming back to Earth under its orange and white main parachute, then firing soft landing rockets at touchdown before recovery teams converged on the craft to extract the three-man crew.